Afternoon in Chinese Garden and Japanese Garden

I'm someone that goes to the weirdest place. Like, my friends would usually go to a shopping mall to catch a movie or something, but I'm the nature-loving and adventurous kind that will go any nature-ish place just for fun. Well, my definition of fun. So during the second day of the short break, my friend and I decided to travel all the way from the East to the West to Chinese Garden.

It was quite a deserted place, since it was a Tuesday. We were greeted by a 7-storey pagoda. The climb up to the top floor was so tiring (yes, I know how ridiculous it sounds, but I don't exercise often) but it was really cool and breezy up on the 7th floor. And not forgetting the quite-bird-eye view of the whole area plus the surrounding housing estates.

Some fallen flowers that looked quite "poetic" xD

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. Edited in Afterlight.

The pagodaaaaa!

iPhone 5, edited in VSCO Cam.

The staircase of the pagoda!

iPhone 5, edited in VSCO Cam.

Panorama of the view from the 7th floor of the pagoda!

iPhone 5, no edit :)

We continued wandering around, and eventually crossed an arch bridge called White Rainbow Bridge which links Chinese Garden to Japanese Garden. According to Google, the bridge was built in the style of the 17-Arch Bridge (十七孔桥) at the Summer Palace (颐和园) in Beijing, China.

White Rainbow Bridge

iPhone 5, edited in VSCO Cam.

White Rainbow Bridge

iPhone 5, edited in VSCO Cam.

White Rainbow Bridge

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. No edit

White Rainbow Bridge

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The 17-Arch Bridge (in the background) in Summer Palace, in Beijing.

Taken back in 2010 with a Samsung phone's camera (hence the bad quality. And I was standing really far away from it...) Edited in Photoshop.

In Japanese Garden, we found a place beside a small pond that was rather scenic. So we took some photos there, and we saw a white bird!!! (sorry guys I need to Google its name xD) It was resting gracefully on the rocks in the pond. I wish I had a telephoto zoom lens so I could take better photos of it!!!

Japanese Garden

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Throwing the Rubik's Cube in the air! Featuring my friend.

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. Edited in Photoshop.

Flowers at Japanese Garden

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Flowers at Japanese Garden

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The white bird!!!

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. Photo cropped in Photoshop.

The white bird!!!

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. Photo cropped in Photoshop.

My friend was feeling really dehydrated (Note to everyone: Bring water whenever you're outside!) so we decided to walk back to Chinese Garden and back to  "civilisation". We saw the 12-Zodiac Statues in Chinese Garden, and also a statue of Confucius. I really wanted to take photos with the Rat statue, but there was a chameleon on it. It was really funny because the chameleon held its head proudly, high up in the air. And it really reminded me of Lion King!

"Chameleon King"! This photo cracks me up so much!

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Closer-up.

Benches with cute rats that look like Mickey Mouse. Gosh they are so chubby and cute!!!

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Confucius statue!

Canon 650D, 50mm f1.8. No edit.

And yeah, that's all for my afternoon "stroll" in Chinese and Japanese Garden.

Have a great day/night! :)

- Elsa